Dinner at Cafe Le Troquet

Had a lovely dinner at Cafe Le Troquet recently. Cafe Le Troquet is an authentic little hole-in-the-wall French cafe/bistro on Balestier Road. The joint is run by a lady called Suzanne Leong who used to live in France and used to operate a French Restaurant for a number of years in the Alliance Francais. It’s hard to question their authenticity, really.

Not too expensive considering the quality of their offerings and I guess that’s the joys of lower rent in an area such as Balestier Road.

We started the evening off with an aperetif:

We shared a bunch of appetizers including Fish Soup (Soupe de Poisson), escargots and salad Nicoise. All excellent. Pictured below are the salad Nicoise and the escargots:

For the main course, my dinner companions had the duck confit (not pictured) and I had the cod (below). The cod was good and served with semolina but the duck confit (confit de canard), as always, was exceptional (though not entirely healthy).

We ended the meal sharing a small cheese platter. I would highly recommend you try it out. Address, map, opening hours, etc in the pictures below (click to enlarge lah).

It’s also a really chill, home like ambience. We were there from 7.30pm until almost 11.00pm and the staff were perfect hosts! Nice to eat good food in a place outside the mess of CBD.

Final picture. Looking for a cab (I decided not to drink and drive). We got one quick so that was cool too 🙂